Helemis's speed was so fast that Lin Kong didn't have time to stop him. He stared at the corpse in Helemis's hand, his mind blank, and asked in surprise: "You... why did you strangle it to death?!"
Helemis grasped the motionless insect and began to absorb its strong vitality, his eyes narrowed dangerously: [If it doesn't die, it will bring me trouble. ]
The king insects are greedy by nature and are born with powerful mental powers. When they feel hungry, they will instinctively use their mental powers to control animals lower than themselves to find food.
Although Helemis didn't know why the egg broke, it did not prevent him from sensing that the other party's mental strength was one level higher than his own. If he didn't want to become a puppet, he could only kill this insect in the cradle. Otherwise, after it passed the larval stage and its nature awakened, it would not be so easy to kill it.
Although Lin Kong was a little sad, he didn't say anything when he heard Helemis say that it would bring trouble. He saw that the other party was still holding the motionless insect, and turned his head away with a twitching expression: "The insect is dead, why are you still holding it? Bury it quickly."
What a sin.
Helemis looked at Lin Kong with a strange look, and could never understand his train of thought: [Why bury it? Its vitality is very strong. ]
Even more powerful than Lin Kong.
How could Helemis let go of this piece of fat meat? After saying this, he turned around and went back to the stone bed to sit cross-legged and practice, preparing to extract the vitality of the juvenile king insect as soon as possible to avoid attracting other covetous people.
Seeing this, Lin Kong slowly climbed onto the bed, feeling a little depressed. He lay in the quilt and tugged at the corner of Helemis's clothes, supporting his head with one hand, and deliberately seduced the other party: "Hey, aren't you going to sleep with me?"
Seeing this, Lin Kong subconsciously took a step back. He didn't know who had provoked Helemis. He looked around and didn't see anyone else. He asked a little late, "... Helemis, what's wrong with you?"
Lin Kong was squatting by the stream washing dishes when he heard the loud noise behind him. He was stunned and thought someone had blown up his house. He walked over angrily with his "new pot" in his hand, just to see who was so brave, when he saw Helemis walking out of the cave with murderous intent, his eyes bloodshot, and a look that made people feel like they were falling into a deep cellar.
Lin Bai basically never goes out except for washing dishes and lighting the fire. Why does Hermes look like he has caught someone cheating in bed
He had also touched the balls of life force light that Helemis had hunted before. The stronger ones were as elastic as jelly, while the weaker ones were just a ball of virtual light. He had never seen this kind of texture before.
Helemis forgot that the mental confinement could only last for fifteen days at most, and he and Lin Kong had been together for too long, inseparable every day, and he almost forgot about it.
Helemis stared at Lin Kong: [Where have you been? ]
Hearing this, Helemis paused, and suddenly didn't know what to ask. He slowly raised his hand under Lin Kong's puzzled gaze, then put his index finger on his smooth forehead and silently released his mental power to detect -
After Helemis finished speaking, he turned his wrist and an egg-sized bead appeared out of thin air in his palm. It was as dark blue as the sea and seemed to be solid. Even from a distance of several steps, it was not difficult to feel the vast energy contained in it.
If Lin Kong knew what Helemis was thinking, he would definitely fight with him. You can take it apart with just a flick of your finger, and it will take him a long time to tie it up again!
Hermes went to the stream to take a bath. He didn't have this habit before. It was Lin Kong who brought him up with it. When he finished his bath and returned to the cave wearing clothes, he saw that the firewood that had been scattered had been bundled up again, and Lin Kong was squatting beside the fire cooking something.
Helemis stood up from the stone bed with a whoosh, and with a heavy wave of his sleeves, the pile of firewood blocking the way in front of him exploded into a mess in an instant.
Lin Kong kicked the quilt unhappily and turned his back to him: Humph, go to sleep!
Helemis was originally looking for Lin Kong everywhere, and had even thought about what to do with him after catching him. However, he did not expect to find Lin Kong squatting by the stream as soon as he went out, no more than 20 meters away from his doorstep. His expression suddenly became subtle.
Helemis thought Lin Kong was concerned about him, and his expression was slightly satisfied: [Not bad.]
It is not difficult to disassemble, just move your fingers.
He didn't like running around, so during the days when Helemis was practicing, he was worried that other large wild beasts might come running over, so he dug a large piece of evergreen grass and buried it at the entrance of the cave. When it grew tall enough, it would just cover the entrance.
Before he finished speaking, he suddenly found that the firewood he had bundled with great effort in the past few days was blown into a mess. His expression suddenly changed: "Why did the firewood I bundled fall apart?!"
When Helemis thought of this, his face instantly turned ugly. He had once left a mark of mental power on Lin Kong, but now he couldn't sense it. It only meant that the other party was too far away from him. He couldn't think of any other possibility except running away.
[…]
But Helemis obviously didn't have that kind of aunty heart. He closed his eyes and concentrated on absorbing energy. A ball of blue light in his hand gradually condensed into shape. Because it was too dense, it almost condensed into substance. No fluctuations could be heard in his voice:
Lin Kong piled up a circle of bricks next to the fire, forming a natural sunken pit in the middle. On top of it was a golden "bowl" with some water and meat in it, which was bubbling.
Helemis leaned forward and squatted, frowning and asking: [What is this? ]
This kind of caring words is very rare for a cold-blooded animal. Lin Kong looked at him from behind and felt quite surprised: "It's enough. I saved a lot. But you didn't open your eyes for three days of training this time. What if you train for another half a year next time? There will definitely not be enough food..."
"Just sleep by yourself, I don't need you to accompany me!"
Oh shit, that’s scary.
Lin Kong touched his forehead and felt nothing. He looked at Helemis' empty hands and subconsciously asked, "Where is the body of the insect?"
He ran away? !
[Sleep alone.]
What can you do to me
Lin Kong read the provocative expression on Helemis' face and was immediately furious. However, he couldn't beat the other party at all, so he could only bear the humiliation and force a smile: "If you want to dismantle it, why do you have to do it yourself? Just let me do it next time, so as not to tire you out."
Hearing this, Helemis paused, then returned to normal. He walked to the stone bed and raised his hand to untie the black robe on his body, exposing his pale and strong body like jade to the air. Unfortunately, his long silver hair fell to his waist, covering too much. Lin Kong could only see his slightly demonic red eyes when he turned around, with a condescending expression:
[I took it apart.]
Lin Kong tentatively reached out and poked it, wondering, "Why is it hard?"
Hermes calmed down miraculously, like a basin of ice water poured on a fire. Apart from a puff of white smoke and a dying struggle, there was no way to rekindle even the slightest spark.
Lin Kong has the capital to be a star. When he looks at others with a smile, you can sense his undisguised scheming, but it doesn't make people feel uncomfortable, only frank and cute.
Helemis closed his eyes and frowned, sensing the mental restraint he had placed on himself. He unexpectedly discovered that he could not sense Lin Kong's aura. He suddenly opened his eyes with a look of doubt and confusion.
Lin Kong raised his eyelids: "Meat, don't you know it?"
Helemis was so focused during his training that he didn't even notice the passage of time in the outside world. When he opened his eyes again, it was already early morning three days later. He saw that the entrance of the cave had been covered with grass taller than a person. A pile of dead branches were tied with straw ropes into a square pile and neatly stacked next to it. There were also many odds and ends in the corner, but Lin Kong was nowhere to be seen.
Hearing this, Lin Kong looked down at himself, with a puzzled look on his face: "Am I not right here?"
He cast another restraint and withdrew his hand after three seconds.
[Refined.]
Lin Kong: “…”
Helemis did not explain, but took the bead away. He turned around and walked into the cave, and asked Lin Kong for the first time: [Is there enough food?]
"boom!"
Helemis lowered his eyes and stared at the thing roasting on the fire: [I didn't ask that.]
Lin Kong finally realized what he was asking and tapped the bowl with a pair of simple chopsticks made of tree branches: "What are you talking about? This is an insect eggshell."
Although Helemis said that she would take him to find fruit shells, she turned around and went to practice. The weather has turned cold recently, and Lin Kong doesn't want to drink cold water, so he simply picked up the broken eggshell of the king insect and used it. Although there are some cracks, it is still half the size of a basketball. It is enough to hold less things, and it is more resistant to burning than an iron pot.
After Lin Kong finished speaking, he glanced at Helemis and said deliberately: "You don't have to take me to find the shell. This egg is very useful."
Man, you're unreliable.
Helemis didn't understand the word "yin and yang", otherwise he would have thought it was very appropriate to describe Lin Kong at the moment. As the water in the bowl boiled, the aroma of meat gradually filled the cave. The originally dry and hard meat became more and more rotten, and the soup also became whiter.
This kind of food would probably be garbage on Earth, but in the primeval forest, it would be a delicacy. Lin Kong picked up the meat with two thin branches in his hands, eating it piece by piece very carefully, and finally drank the soup, which made him feel warm all over.
Helemis had been sitting quietly on the stone bed, as if waiting for something. When he saw Lin Kong had finished his meal, he hooked his fingertips and said two words expressionlessly: [Come here.]
Lin Kong looked at him questioningly: "What?"
Hermes: [Sleep with me.]
He wanted it.
Lin Kong: “…”
Lin Kong swallowed hard, wondering how Helemis could say such a thing with such an ascetic poker face, or was it that the insects that grew up in the wild had lower standards
But despite all his complaints, Lin Kong still obediently took off his clothes and climbed onto the bed. He hugged Helemis's cold body in the quilt, and when he smiled faintly, his eyes were like honey: "Did you miss me?"
Is this bug thinking about itself, or is it thinking about doing that kind of thing
[Um.]
Helemis had no idea what shame was, and in most cases he spoke the truth. He hugged Lin Kong's warm waist in the quilt, and felt that his muscles seemed a little hard. He didn't know if it was because he was tired from carrying firewood during this period.
"You're not even shy."
Lin Kong pinched the tip of Helemis' nose, muttered something to himself, then lowered his head and kissed her. It didn't take long for him to go from being awkward to being proficient.
Helemis groaned with a thick nasal sound. He finally stopped looking like a wooden man in bed. Occasionally, he would open his wet red eyes and look at Lin Kong with a blank look, and then he would be traced by the other person stroke by stroke.
Three days is not a long time, but it seems a bit long to them.
When Helemis was in high spirits, his eyes became redder and redder. He worried many times that he would lose control of his emotions and eat Lin Kong. After all, he was a wild beast and did not have the calm self-control of humans. However, the other party's gentle pecks and kisses could always calm him down miraculously.
When the sun sets, Lin Kong holds Helemis to take a bath as usual. The water, which gets colder day by day, seems to be showing the change of seasons. However, there are many kinds of trees in the dense forest, some of which are evergreen all year round and their leaves do not wither.
Lin Kong pushed the limp Helemis into the water and kissed her again. He unexpectedly discovered that a faint ancient insect pattern sometimes appeared on the back of her neck. He reached out and touched it, whispering in an ambiguous voice: "I won't do it with you in winter."
Helemis was originally lazily hanging on Lin Kong, but when he heard this, he suddenly raised his eyelids, unable to hide his surprise: [Why? ]
Lin Kong's reason was simple: "It's cold to take a shower in winter."
After he finished speaking, he pulled Hermes out of the water, dressed him, and returned to the cave. He thought that there was no point in doing this kind of thing every day as it would easily cause kidney damage.
But Lin Kong obviously underestimated Helemis's persistence, because the other party hunted a red-bellied phoenix with golden feathers all over its body the next day, and threw it on the ground with a clang, raising countless dust.
When Lin Kong saw the half-dead bird, his eyelids couldn't help but twitch wildly. He suspected that Helemis had beaten the phoenix back. "Is this the prey you caught today?"
Helemis looked a little embarrassed today, because Lin Kong clearly saw three scratches on his face, and even his originally clean and tidy black robe was torn. It was really a strange thing.
Hermes looked a little unhappy, probably because he hadn't been so embarrassed for many years. He said in a deep voice: [This prey is yours.]
Seeing this, Lin Kong subconsciously stood up from the ground, inevitably a little surprised: "What did you catch to get hurt like this?"
He didn't think of the red-bellied bird at first, but just thought it was a small prey that Helemis had killed.
Helemis did not say anything, but transformed his sharp claws into a razor-sharp one, directly split open the throat of the red-bellied bird, dug out a blood-red bead from it and threw it to Lin Kong: [Take it!]
Lin Kong raised his hand to take it, and then he found that the bead was burning hot. He didn't know whether it was because it was just dug out or something else: "Why is there a bead in the throat of this bird?"
Helemis didn't explain too much: [It grew up eating fire grass, and the bead in its throat is burning all year round. If you hold it, you won't have to worry about the cold in winter.]
Lin Kong paused after hearing this, and then realized that the bead was for him. He realized something belatedly and looked at Helemis in surprise: "You did this today, didn't you, just to catch this bird?"
Helemis remained silent, which was considered as his agreement.
At that moment, Lin Kong couldn't tell what he felt. Seeing that blood was still dripping from Helemis's claws, he frowned and pulled him to sit down beside the stone bed. He squatted down and used a mineral water bottle to wash him clean: "Even if I said that it was too cold in winter and I didn't want to sleep with you, you didn't have to fight so hard, right?"
Helemis always had no expression on his face. He lowered his eyes and stared at Lin Kong. His red pupils reflected his face clearly: [With this bead, you won't be afraid of the cold in winter, and you can survive. Isn't that good? ]
The red-bellied phoenix is even rarer than the hundred-year-old stone-piercing beast. It is also agile and difficult to catch. Helemis searched for a very long time before finding one and even got injured.
After all, he was still a little worried that the prey would not survive the cold winter, so he did everything he could to find the beads. As for sleeping, he didn't take it to heart at all.
As long as Helemis wanted to, he didn't believe that Lin Kong would dare to refuse him.
Lin Kong paused while flushing the water after hearing this. He tilted his hand slightly, and the liquid in the mineral water bottle suddenly poured out. He held Helemis' pale and slender hand, and seemed to be stunned. After a few seconds, he looked up at him and said, "You are looking for this bead just to give me a winter?"
Helemis frowned and asked: [What else? ]
"… "
All right.
Lin Kong said nothing, but lowered his head and wiped Helemis' hands with his old clothes, very carefully and meticulously. He was thinking about whether animals could be domesticated, or...
They influence and tame each other.
After Lin Kong helped Helemis wipe his hands, he gently touched his injured face and said seriously: "Don't do this next time. You are so beautiful, it's a pity to get your face injured."
Every time Helemis came back injured, Lin Kong would react, either with surprise or concern, but he would never be indifferent. He found that he did not hate this feeling, and even liked it a little. He said "hmm" without any emotion: "I know."
Lin Kong squatted on the ground, and suddenly raised his head and kissed Helemis. The kiss was too soft and sweet, and even his whisper in her ear was wrapped in an inexplicable ambiguity: "Helemis, thank you for your beads. I will definitely survive this winter."
No matter what, Lin Kong felt that he should try his best to live.
Winter came faster than expected, and the vegetation withered in an instant. Before hibernating, the Insect King summoned the three God-servants to the temple. Its body looked much yellower and looser than last time, and every time it moved, it accumulated a layer of wrinkled skin.
[I am about to hibernate in the temple. You must collect enough vitality for me during this winter to help me complete my second molting next spring.]
Helemis was wearing a black robe, his eyes were drooping, like a cold stone statue. He was indifferent at first, until he heard the Insect King say that he was going to complete the second molting, then he suddenly opened his eyes: [Are you going to enter the second molting? ]
The Insect King's life is coming to an end, so he has been devouring energy frantically recently, trying to enter the second molting period. As long as he molts successfully, he can gain another 200 years of life. But Helemis always thought that was an unattainable goal. He didn't expect that the Insect King actually did it.
The old and deep voice of the Insect King sounded in their minds, making their scalps numb: [Yes, Helemis, you must find more food for me. ]
Jia Yan and Xue Bo were equally surprised. They looked at each other and saw the surging emotions in each other's eyes. Their faces were full of excitement.
Disbelief, surprise, uneasiness, panic, all kinds of emotions were there, except joy.
(End of this chapter)